The 2015 Oregon blueberry season will start seven to 10 days earlier than usual due to a mild winter and warmer-than-typical spring.

Monte Vista, CO — With an ongoing drought a major factor in the San Luis Valley's potato industry, planting this coming season could be down between 8 and 10 percent from last year's 55,000 acres.

PESQUEIRA, SONORA — An idyllic breeze cooled the shaded veranda of the bright-white hacienda of Agropecuaria Las Mercedes, a 1,200-acre vineyard.

Delta Packing, based in Lodi, CA, announced the completion of its new cherry packingline just in time for the 2015 season.  

The redesign and installation started just after the 2014 season ended and includes the latest in sorting and packing machinery. Delta utilized the expertise of Van Doren Sales Inc., headquartered in Wenatchee WA, which has a reputation for designing and manufacturing the highest quality machinery in cherry packinglines to construct and install the new line.  

World Trade Month, celebrated throughout the month of May, brings not only an opportunity to reflect on the United States’ economic well-being as a whole and the impact the international marketplace brings, but it is also a time to celebrate the diversified food products found in our nation – specifically, the distinct goods and products that highlight California as a leader in food production.

Denver — Three times each week Gene Schneider trades his phone headset for a sweatband and transforms from produce sales agent to college handball instructor — something the Ringer & Son brokerage veteran has done quietly but regularly for nearly a decade.

“I’ve been doing this for nine years,” Schneider said. “I teach at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and I have 21 students in three classes. I teach two classes on Tuesday and one on Thursday, and I also play five or six times a week at the Jefferson County YMCA.”